Alex C. McDonald, Associate Justice
Justice McDonald was born November 22, 1936 in
Butte, Montana. He is married and has four grown daughters.
He graduated from Stanford University in 1958 with a B.S. degree
in Industrial Engineering. He received his L.L.B. degree in 1961
from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall) at
which he was revising editor of the California Law Review and a
member of the Order of the Coif. He received his L.L.M. degree in
2001 from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Following law school he studied Indian Constitutional Law at the
University of Bombay in Bombay, India and was a law clerk for
California Supreme Court Justice Raymond E. Peters.
He was in the private practice of law from 1963 until appointed
to the Court of Appeal by Governor Pete Wilson in June 1995.
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